Date: Mon, 1 Mar 93 10:45:32 PST From: memexis!tribble@uunet.UU.NET (E. Dean Tribble)
I would like to separate the issues of hollering anything at 4am in residential areas from things like libel and slander. Disturbing people with your volume independent of its content is like blasting white noise at damaging volume levels. The remedies for it have nothing to do with speech, they have to do with disturbing the peace; your sound is crossing onto my property at intolerable levels.
And again, I repeat..... with anonymous remailers, you no longer have a way to enforce said grounds of disturbing the peace ---- unless you do things like approach the finnish authorities and ask that penet be disconnected from the network for disturbing the peace of various Usenet groups.....
- Ted
Don't most news readers have "kill files" (sometimes known as "bozo filters")? I definately prefer decentralized solutions. Anyone mandating what I can and cannot read is slime (synonomous with censor), imo. I want to make that choice myself, thank you very nice. Fen
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1993 13:36:13 -0800 From: fen@genmagic.genmagic.com (Fen Labalme) Don't most news readers have "kill files" (sometimes known as "bozo filters")? I definately prefer decentralized solutions. Anyone mandating what I can and cannot read is slime (synonomous with censor), imo. I want to make that choice myself, thank you very nice. I suppose that a kill file of something like ".*@remailer.site" for each of the remailers would filter out all of the anonymous kill files. It still would slow down everyone news reader's, though. And as a news admin, if someone anonymous user abuses USENET by sending large GIF's to a newsgroup, this filling up my news spool, I (and each individual news admin) can make the individual choice to mail each offending anonymous news posting to the postmaster@remailer.site. Is that what you meant by a decentralized solution? :-) - Ted
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